A customised Training Programme will leave you feeling energised and focused.

Welcome to Benchmark Personal Training and Nordic Walking Fitness

Benchmark Personal Training offers a wide variety of personal training services at home, in the workplace or outdoors, to suit you. We appreciate that not everyone wants to go to a gym and some people find training can be routine and repetitive. If you’re looking for an alternative to getting fit that offers variety and fun as well as delivering results; then look no further.

A customised training programme delivers not only physical benefits, but stress relief and will leave you feeling energised and focused… Alayne Beresford-Chapman & Alvyn Bysouth

Services

It's not just about running mile after mile; we offer innovative ways in which to improve your levels of fitness, lose weight and improve body tone… Alayne Beresford-Chapman & Alvyn Bysouth

Nordic Walking Fitness

Nordic Fitness will burn up to 40% more calories than walking or jogging and uses up to 90% of the skeletal muscles. Nordic fitness and nordic PT can be tailored to suit your personal goals..

Fitness Assessments

We assess your fitness at the start of your training programme for two reasons, to ensure you’re healthy enough to start your fitness journey and to bench mark your current fitness levels so that we can monitor your progress with regular re-assessments every 6-8 weeks. The assessment includes body fat %age, blood pressure, heart rate, flexibility, posture analysis, cardiovascular and muscular fitness analysis.

Weight Loss/Management

The only guaranteed way to lose weight is to combine sensible eating with exercise. We offer creative, fun, varied training programmes to support you to achieve your weight loss goals. We can also give you nutritional tips and advice to help you lose weight and keep it off for good.

Core and Abdominal Training

There are literally hundreds of different exercises you can do to tone, define and shape your tummy area; it’s not just about sit ups! We can combine specific exercises into your training programme to help you achieve results, strengthen your core and back, as well as give shape to your abdomen.

Cardiovascular

It's not just about running mile after mile; we offer innovative ways in which to improve your levels of fitness, lose weight and improve body tone. We can design specific programmes to help you achieve your goals, push your limits and get great results fast!

Body Building

If you’re a keen body builder and want to add focus to your physical development, or want to get serious about your development, look no further! We have a variety of training techniques and approaches that will help you muscle up fast! We can help you look bigger, leaner and more ripped than you imagined!

Muscular Shaping and Toning

Whether it’s a whole body approach or focusing on specific areas, body weight and free weight exercise is a fantastic way to shape up. Using a variety of techniques and approaches, the body will adapt to weight training and strengthen itself.

Sports Specific

Whether you’re a keen amateur or serious professional, one of the most important factors in training for any sport is an understanding of how the body functions within that given discipline. We can design a sports specific programme that helps you increase your performance, strengthen key muscle groups, develop stamina; whatever is required to help you keep the edge over your competitors.

Nutritional Advice

It’s a well coined phrase, but you are what you eat! What you put into your body has a direct effect on how your body looks, feels and performs. We offer a comprehensive food diary analysis which will identify areas that can be improved and adjusted in order to gain maximum benefit from your training programme.

Locations

Based in Rayleigh, we travel to train you at home, work or in an open public or private space (with owner’s permission). Outdoor routines or boot camps are available for special occasions or groups of 4 or more, upon request.